The Rejected Alpha's Vengeance-Chapter 566: Perhaps There Would Come A Better Choice [2]

[HAWI]

"What do you mean by help?" Hawi questioned.

"I need your permission to eliminate her memories of you. I need her to go back to who she was before. I need her to be the queen until you are ready to come back. If the Salvadors know that she knows her identity, they won’t stop until they kill her," Islinda reminded.

At that moment, Hawi knew that she had the upper hand. The moon goddess was pleading with her indirectly while throwing a few threats in between just to try and gain leverage on her. It was not something that always happened and Hawi was worried.

She could tell that whatever the Salvadors war and their mission in the realm were posing so much danger that the goddess had been left with no option. Perhaps that was the first time that she felt powerful, but it was not comfortable. Stay updated through novelbuddy

Hawi had only wanted Ruru and now it was the weekend like she was going to have to go back to being the white wolf again. There are things that she knew she had to do, even if she was stubborn as a mule.

She may have been the craziest of the old woman’s creation, but deep down, Hawi knew that as long as she was alive as the white wolf, as long as she still had a life to hold onto and a life that related to her people. She had a lot of responsibilities.

She may have run away from the werewolf realm because of grief and her denial, but she was intelligent enough to know that the Olyana kingdom was hers to rule and she had the choice to make. Of course, she would eventually go back home anyway.

"Are you threatening me?" Hawi asked as she looked at Islinda. The woman was staring at Hawi with a bored face again, her pleading face already shifted and Hawi held back a scoff.

She knew so well that it was hard to deal with her so she wasn’t about to taunt the goddess even further. But at the same time, it was exciting to see her stoop to this level with her, as she had truly run out of options.

Then again, Hawi also acknowledged the fact that Islinda was making a request, however, backhanded it was. The woman had all the power over her and if she had wanted to, Islinda could have simply commanded Hawi into war and Hawi wouldn’t have had a choice.

Maybe she was trying to show the woman that she wasn’t as unhinged as the old books spoke of her, which wasn’t even, and because she was a leader, a goddess of more than ten million beasts. Surely, she had earned the right to make demands.

"I wouldn’t think of it like a threatening young wolf. This is something that you and I must do, no matter how we feel about each other right now. I care about you, Hawi. I know you want to know why Rukiya did what she did, but she is the one who has to tell you that herself.

"I could tell it to you, but you need an explanation from her. It would change nothing if you do it for me, but it would mean every thug if she comes forward and tells it to you herself. You both need that truth, Hawi.

"Besides, hearing it all from her would mean that she trusts you and remembers everything, Hawi. You love her, and you are to protect her, which is something that doesn’t come so hard for you and I see that too.

"I wouldn’t come in the middle of that if I did think it was important. I would have had the regular warriors deal with it, or even the our protector who is back in Sicario doing nothing at the moment.

"There were so many options, but you are the only one who had to do this. It wasn’t that much of a choice for me either and while I am your master, I have a heart too, and I assure you it isn’t as cold.

"As for the kid, that is also a decision that you must make. There is only so long that I can hold them off. You have to decide if you will protect the love of your life or doom her when you didn’t even know where you could start with protecting her," Islinda said in earnest.

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She was trying to leave with Hawi, even though she could tell that there was a loss of spite in Hawi for her. She wasn’t about to blame Hawi for that or even plead differently with her.

The girl had already gone through so much shit over her eyes and as they stood in the empty vast land, Islinda knew she had to trust that Hawi would do the right thing, without her having to push the cruelest of buttons.

"Why should I trust you?" Hawi asked even though she could feel that she trusted the woman blindly. Perhaps it was not as reassuring to her as she had wanted it to be, but life and love aren’t exactly the simplest of things to deal with over time, right?

"I created you. And I could kill you for an ounce of disrespect, and yet in the past two hours you have done nothing other than remind me why you are a threat to everything that I hold dear.

"You have threatened to wipe out my creation, forgetting that I am the most powerful of all the deities and could remove you from existence in an instant. I am not as forgiving as I seem to be, Hawi.

"But I need you to do this, which is why I didn’t do anything to you, your mate, or even your friends. I don’t want to force you into saving the realm because, at the end of the day, it is your responsibility as the white wolf.

"I could force you to sit there and watch as you struggle to eliminate the Salvadors and yet I am here with you, trying to be as civil as possible. I am trying to make things work for the both of us, in the simplest of ways.

"We both know that no deity likes it when their mere creation talks down at them and yet you’re still very much alive and none of the people or things you care about has been affected. Don’t you think that calls for enough trust?" Islinda said and Hawi faltered.

She had known that the goddess was her master, it wasn’t that hard for her to remember, because she had never forgotten that this woman, despite the fact that he had hurt Hawi one too many times, had aided Hawi in the great war.

She had helped Hawi win the bottles that Hawi had thought she would never be able to win no matter how long it would take. The goddess had listened to her prayers over the years and helped her out when she had no one to hold onto.

Granted, it wasn’t exactly something to tell the woman at the time, but Hawi understood that the consequences would be dire, given she was the white wolf, and she answered directly to Islinda. But even then, was that why Hawi faltered?

Or was she just worried about her loved ones being dragged into this mess that she had absolutely zero control over? Maybe she had to make a decision or maybe she just had to wait and see what it would mean for her at the end of the day.

"Relax. I am not trying to threaten you. I could as well get someone to do the job, but I trust you. The realm trusts you more than they even trust the protectors to give them reassurance and hope.

"You have been gone for over three hundred years and yet they still hope and pray to me to keep you safe and sound so you can find your way home. They know you will come back and they are waiting eagerly for that day.

"The wolves trust you. Hell, even the Salvadors who are terrorizing the realm trusted you once, and a part of them still does, but they are angry with you and that you left, that is why you are the perfect one for the job.

"You can stop the murders. You can make sure everything is alright. You can restore their faith in humanity, Awuor. Hey need you alive rather than dead and that is the key reason you’re still alive here with me," Islinda said swiftly.

She was genuine this time; Hawi could see that too. The woman with all the power in the realm was trusting her with the hardest of jobs and she had to think if she was able to do it, or if she was just about to screw it all up again.

"What if I’m not the right person for the job?" Hawi asked in earnest. She didn’t doubt her abilities to keep everyone in check, no. She just didn’t trust her temper at the moment she had a hundred years of unreleased rage and she was easily triggered.

Hawi was afraid that she would ruin the people that she was meant to protect. She just wanted to see everyone happy and peaceful, but there would be times when her faith in herself would be tested and she had to decide between being the person they knew;

… or being the monster that dwelled their lives.

"You are the right person for the job, Hawi…"